Nursery
Welcome to our Nursery page. The adults in Nursery are:
Monday (am Mrs Secker and Miss Whiteley) (pm Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley)
Tuesday Mrs Secker and Miss Whiteley
Wednesday (am Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley) (pm Mrs Secker and Miss Whiteley)
Thursday Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley
Friday Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley
Mrs Marshall is with us every lunchtime
Please see below for photographs and recent news from Nursery. For parents/carers of Nursery children, photographs will also be shared with you on Tapestry.
November
We have been learning all about Diwali. We know it is the festival of light that lots of people all around the world celebrate. We have explored Rangoli decorations, painted Diya lamps, made firework pictures and learnt some songs about Diwali.
We have also looked at mehndi patterns that some people decorate their hands with.
October
We have just had a wonderful visit from Ian's Pop-Up Farm. The children were fascinated to see, listen to and touch, a duck, hen, cockerel, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, a tortoise and a sheep. We used lots of familiar and new vocabulary to describe them and talk about their features. The children had a brilliant time and they were so gentle with all of the animals.
It was so much fun. We talked about our favourite animals, their sounds, whether they have fur/feathers/beaks and what they like to eat. We did lots of comparing too! What an amazing morning!
We are really enjoying the story, What the Ladybird Heard. It is a funny rhyming tale about a ladybird who overhears a plot to steal the farmer's cow.
We have been reading ‘Room on the Broom' this week.
We read the story outside in the forest and then we found sticks for wands and broomsticks, made spells and potions and watched and listened to the wind just like the wind in the story. We tried some spells to make some more leaves fall off the trees. It didn’t work so we came inside to decorate some wands to see if that made them more magical.
The children worked so hard to find and put on puddle suits and wellies by themselves and take them off too, as well as hanging them up and putting away wellies when we were finished. Brilliant independence and following instructions.
September
We have had a lovely start to the year. Our existing children have come back as wonderful role models to our new children and the new children are settling brilliantly. We are all getting to know each other. We have been finding out about each other's pets and families ad well as our likes and dislikes.
Our first half term reading is focused on books about farms. Children have sent in photographs of themselves at farms and we have talked about our own experiences.
We have started reading 'The Little Red Hen'. The children can join in with "I will do it myself" and "and so she did". We have been learning lots of Makaton signs for farm animals as well as lots of songs.
We picked, washed and ate carrots from the school garden. The children said they were crunch and some children wanted to eat three!
We have buttered and eaten some bread, just like the red hen did at the end of the story. Our spreading skills are fabulous!
We have started reading The Scarecrow’s Hat.
All of the animals swap things in the story. We had a go at swapping some things ourselves.
We made our own scarecrow and drew around a body. We used lots of spare Nursery clothes to dress our scarecrow and then talked about what we liked.
We have started talking about Autumn. We can sign Autumn in Makaton and we have been to the forest to explore the fallen leaves. We are looking out for signs of Autumn when we are outside.
